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Revision 1 (Simon Lacroix, 2018-08-15 17:26) → Revision 2/5 (Simon Lacroix, 2018-08-15 19:23)

h1. Software deployment 

 This pages presents the requirements of the set of tools that helps to easily configure, launch and run the robots on-board softwares. 

 h2. General requirements 

 * The tools must be very easy to use 
 * The tools must be very easy to maintain and update 
 * The tools must allow to specify and configure the softwares that will be run 
 * In a second step, the tools will endow means to supervise the execution of scenarios 

 h2. General principles 

 The following principles take very much after the "dala scripts" (see the git repo: git+ssh://softs.laas.fr/git/robots/dala-scripts.git ), the main file names in this suite are referred to hereafter. 

 #    A shell script: (see shell-script/start.sh) 
 
  * sets a series of environment variables required to launch the softwares (in particular, a LOGDIR) 
 
  * Interprets a configuration file that specifies which softwares must be launched (a software can be a ROS node, a Genom3 module, some utilities -- e.g. redirecting the GPS correction data to the proper device, what else ?) 
 
  * Properly launches each software -- and warn the user in case launch failed 
 
  * Redirects standard and error outputs of each software 

 A companion shell-scripts terminates "in a clean manner" all the launched softwares